Silver Nuggets: Goalies _____; Canada's worst team?

by Peter Raaymakers on Oct 5, 2010 1:00 PM EDT in Silver Nuggets

Here's a look at the Ottawa Senators headlines as we wait for the regular season to commence:

"Senators goalies have yet to step up". Ever. (Citizen)
I'm pretty sure Nick Foligno won his fight against Dale Weise. (HockeyFights)
A little piece on David Hale and his unexpected spot on the Sens' blue line. His thoughts: "I'm not satisfied, but I'm definitely happy." (Citizen) (UPDATE: David Hale is already on waivers.)
Jarkko Ruutu says he wants to stay in Ottawa. Not sure what else he'd say, though... (Sun)
One year after the Dany Heatley trade. Spoiler: Ottawa still got hosed. (From the Rink)
Ben from Sens Army is back posting now and again, and he thinks Bill Guerin is "the player the Sens have always needed". (Sens Army Blog)

The Ottawa Senators: 35/1 for the Stanley Cup, 16/1 for the Eastern Conference championship, and 4/1 for the Northeast Division banner. (Puck Daddy)
Hockey's Future gives their rating of Sens' prospects. (Hockey's Future)
Fluff piece on the Sens' team-building exercise. (Citizen)
Puck Daddy resident shit disturber Ryan Lambert thinks the Senators will be the worst Canadian team this year. Which is exactly what he said going into last season. Exactly. To the word. It's like a Mad-Libs season preview:

Ryan Lambert, Oct. 4, 2010:
"TSN will say that a Canadian team is, in fact, the odds-on favorite to win it all, before conceding that, OK, maybe half of the other 24 teams in the league have a chance of being better than the worst Canadian squad (Ottawa). Then Sportsline or somebody will predict the Wild will win the President's Trophy because they haven't seen a hockey game in, like, six years."

Ryan Lambert, Sept. 28, 2009:
"TSN will say that a Canadian team is, in fact, the odds-on favorite to win it all, before conceding that, OK, maybe half of the other 24 teams in the league have a chance of being better than the worst Canadian squad (Ottawa). Then Sportsline or somebody will predict the Lightning will win the President's Trophy because they haven't seen a hockey game in, like, six years."

Nichols has something to say about Jared Cowen's demotion back to the WHL. (The 6th Sens)
The New York Islanders released Dean McAmmond from his professional tryout contract. Big mistake, Isles. Big mistake. (Islanders)

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Isn’t that David Hale link out of date now?

by dzuunmod on Oct 5, 2010 1:04 PM EDT reply actions

Silver Nuggets is a scheduled post

The Hale thing came out about 20 minutes ago.

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by Ryan Classic on Oct 5, 2010 1:05 PM EDT up reply actions

Ah, ok. I didn’t realize that.

by dzuunmod on Oct 5, 2010 1:13 PM EDT up reply actions

David Hale happy, then confused, then sad

WAIVERS!

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by Ryan Classic on Oct 5, 2010 1:05 PM EDT reply actions

I bet you're living this story Ryan

Mariners and Senators fan in Miami, covering the team in Ottawa at Silver Seven

by Alexander Calloway on Oct 5, 2010 2:37 PM EDT up reply actions

Regarding the odds link...

Our over-under for points if 87.5? Seriously? Even the horror show of 2008-2009 put up 83. On the other hand, Giggles is 9th favourite for the Hart! Ahead of Kopitar.

I expect Spezza to get about 90 points this year, but I thought most neutrals were not.

by Adnan on Oct 5, 2010 1:23 PM EDT reply actions

I have never really understood how they select the odds (I know the math is far more complicated than I ever care to learn), but it seems weird that Ottawa (16/1) has better odds than Buffalo (17/1) of winning the conference, but significantly worse odds (35/1) than them (26/1) at winning the cup. Is this winning the conference in the regular season or playoffs?

by Barnsley Pal on Oct 5, 2010 4:32 PM EDT reply actions

Something important to remember here

Odds are for gambling, not predicting. Bookmakers are like Z. Smith — they don’t give a crap. They set the odds to encourage enough people to bet on either side of them so that they make money no matter what the outcome.

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by Mark Parisi on Oct 5, 2010 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions